Evangelical church building hut Hildesheim

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The Evangelische Kirchenbauhütte Hildesheim was an institution for church reconstruction in the city of Hildesheim after the Second World War .

history

St. Jakobi Church in Hildesheim

At the end of the war in 1945, with the exception of the damaged buildings of the Christ parish, all church buildings in Hildesheim were destroyed. In order to initiate the reconstruction of the church, state superintendent Rudolf Detering , the pastor of St. Michael Kurt Degener at the time , senior gymnastics teacher Eich and other clergy and lay people called the Evangelical church building hut into being. It supported the parishes financially and, for example, by procuring timber, which was made available to the parishes free of charge, also for specific building projects. The Cologne architect Brandt was commissioned to plan new church buildings. The first plans were already available in 1946/47.

At the beginning of 1948, when the reconstruction of the St. Jakobi Church reached a decisive stage, the church building works took on a full-time technical worker for the first time on March 1, 1948. In December 1948 the topping-out ceremony for the St. Jakobi Church was celebrated as the first Protestant church in the city. On the 4th Advent 1949 it was consecrated again as the first Protestant place of worship. A little later, the St. Lamberti Church was rebuilt .

The working group of the Kirchenbauhütte expanded in the following years more and more beyond the area of ​​the city to the entire district of Hildesheim . This was taken into account by hiring additional staff and financial subsidies from the regional church office in Hanover. Ultimately, however, it was no longer able to cope with the growing tasks and, after negotiations with Oberlandeskirchenrat Constanz Brüel and consistorial builder Ernst Witt , it was converted into the first branch of the Office for Building and Art Maintenance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover on May 1, 1954 . The branch office was given an office in the state superintendent's building.

literature

  • Thanks to the Kirchenbauhütte . In: The Embassy, ​​Sprengelbeilage Hildesheim, March 3, 1963
  • Work began with the construction of St. Jakobi . In: Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, 51/1968